The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-03-24

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the fire. SIT was terrible to hear her cries.
For some reason she could not open the
door and was unable to break it in. Final
ly was driven away by the fire and smoke,
and had to leave her to her fate. could
only tell from the voice, but suppose she
was young girl anywhere from ten to fif-
teen years old. She was in room on the
third floor facing on Main street"
r. II. Humes occupied room on the
third-foor. He was awakened by the elec-
trio bells, and, after arousing several peo-
pie on the same floor, jumped through
window to the kitchen roof. There every
thing was in flames. After bidding good
by to several others on the same roof, he
made rush for the Eagle street door,
going through the kitchen skylight and out
through the flames and escaped. He left
five persons on the kitchen roof, and thinks
they must all have perished, as they did not
attempt to follow through the window.
Chief Hornung, of the fire department,
says: 1.-THE number Of people rescued by
the fremen is about twenty to twenty-five.
We did all we could to rescue them. We
got two streams into the corridor OF the
hotel, and at that moment the flames were
shooting up that big staircase and elevator
way beyond the reach of the hose. We
tried to play both streams upward on the
fire, but there was SO much screaming OF
guests and calls for help from the windows
that we called of most of the men from the
hose and let the building 60 for awhile,
giving all our attention to the ladders"
Among the brave deeds Of the fremen
was one deserving of special mention. Dis
trict Engineer Edward Murphy was on
ladder rescuing some Of the occupants Of
the hotel. At an upper story window was
one Of the female domestics. He shouted
to her to remain where she was and he
would come up and save her. The poor
creature, frantic with terror, instead Of
obeying, leaped from the window and liter
ally threw herself at Murphy. This caused
him to lose his balance on the ladder, but
hung on with one hand and caught the girl
around the neck, holding her thus firmly
until he could regain his equilibrium, when
he slid down the ladder bearing her safely
to the ground.
There were 125 persons In the hotel,
seventy OF them guests, eight regular
boarders and the remainder families of
proprietors and employees. Twenty-Five OF
these were rescued from windows, and
twenty-five are at the hospital. A large
number escaped bv other means.
The following is list of the injured
Edward Wheelan, Newburg, burned about
the hands and face; William Kackay, Of
Niagara Falls, feet, back and arms burned
Perry Davis, Of New York, hands and feet
injured; 81. P. Smith, Of Syracuse, face,
hands and feet burned; Mary Nolan, badly
burned about the body, may not recover;
Maggie Nubbach, seriously burned about
the body, face and hands; a man named
Nichols, very seriously injured; Fanny
Harvey, seriously burned; Frederick K.
Moore, of Cleveland, Ohio, seriously
TO-, oh fhn foo nd ond
feet; William A. Haven, of Helena,
Mont, burned about the hands, feet and
ia, and suffering from shock. He is chief
engineer of the Northern Pacific railroad
Edwin A. Finch, of Scranton, Pa, suffers
from serious burns about the face; Henry
B. Rumsey, of New York, suffers from
burns all over the body; c. NJ. Dubois, OF
Syracuse, is severely burned all over the
body; Jacob Kohn, of New York, badly in
jured by Jumping from the fourth floor
Mas White, burned about the face ano
arms; Mathew Shannon, slightly injured
Clinton Bidwell, burned in face; Nellie
Welch, face and hands burned; Mrs. Kate
Pierce, slightly burned.
The condition of the ruins last night wa!
not such as to allow of search for the re
mains of other unfortunates who no doub
| perished. It is believed that from ten II
| twenty more bodies will be found. FiremeI
were still flooding the hot bricks with waite
and expect to have the ruins in condition
for excavation this morning.
| The loss on the buildings destroyed il
estimated at about half a million dollars
| Stafford & Co. have an insurance on tn,
Richmond House and outfit of $4,000; ol
wines and liquors, s4,5OO; on billiard tables
81 200; on hotel improvements, s13, 900. Tn
personal effects of the proprietors wer
insured for about $780, The Buffalo Ii
brary Association carried an insuranc
of $4,000 on the Richmond building an
$33,5OO on st. James Hall, occupies
by BunnelPs museum. Peter Paul 1
Bro. estimate their loss close to $40
600, with an insurance Of about $4,000
the stock is total loss. James Creighton
saloonkeeper, estimates his loss at $1,000
insurance 5000. Jose C. Palieais, cigars
estimated loss $4,000; partially insured
The two latter places were located in tn
frame structure on Main street. The los
to the proprietors of Bunnelps museum
not yet known. Mr.. NJ. Adler is said t
have had in his room $4,000 worth c
diamonds and jewelry, which were not, q
previously reported, in the safe. It is sal
they are lost.